Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Filed under: games

Sports Fans: You're Retro Whether You Like It Or Not.

If you've watched or attended a sporting event in America over the past five or six years, there's little doubt that your ears have been assaulted by this song during one of the many, many breaks they seem to take during what should be gameplay:

And in other news: fwaarr, eh?  It's a song called "Kernkraft 4000" by a German techno outfit called Zombie Nation.  I must admit, as a big fat geek, it gives me the warm fuzzies to think that a stadium filled with sweaty, testosterone-heavy, Kappa-Tossa-Wanka, painted-face meatheads are all singing along with a twenty-six year old tune from a Commodore 64 game.

Yes, dears.  The Star Dust level of "Lazy Jones".  Tee-hee!

Ms Pacman Has Hearing Difficulties

This March, You Tube implemented a system whereby certain videos would be given auto-generated subtitles, presumably for the hard of hearing. This technology is based on a speech recognition system which automatically transcribes the audio of a video translates it to text subtitles at the bottom. It is rarely, if ever, accurate. Nice idea, though.

This afternoon, I noticed that closed captioning was available for a video of the last four levels of Ms Pacman who, herself, seems to suffer from hearing difficulties...

WarioWare D.I.Y.

Good lord above, I simply *must* have this! Wario Ware (on both the DS and the Wii) is always riotously good fun and unashamedly surreal, so the ides of being able to build the games is far too tempting to pass up.

I wonder how much actual control you'll have, though. Will it be a set of pre-determined bits to plug in, or will you have TOTAL control....?